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MR. EDWARD ATKINSON.
HIS PARABLE OF "THE BLACKSMITH
THAT WENT TO COLLEGE.”
“Chatham,” the well-known Atlanta
■correspondent of the Savannah Neu*,
says: “ Mr. Edward Atkinson was
cheered when he announced, in his
address at the Exposition, that his son,
now a student at Harvard, was a practi
cal blacksmith and carpenter. This is
nothing new here in the South. I
know a score of talented boys who
have come from college and gone to work
at trades, and who deserve even more
applause than Mr. Atkinson’s son, who
went from the work-bench to college.
One graduate of the Georgia University,
whose father is a contractor, went
home and laid brick with his own hands
on the buildings under contract. The
young men of the New South are, as a
general thing, workers.”
It seems to be a hard task to pene
trate the ossified prejudices of intelli
gent men, sometimes; this is especially
evident in the case of aristocratic New
Englanders, who labor under the delu
sion that they are the providentially
appointed teachers and reformers of
mankind, more especially of that por
tion of the human race living south of
“Mason’s and Dixon’s line.”
It seems to be a particularly difficult
matter for this aesthetic class of Ameri
can citizens to understand that the
“New South” is a tangible reality, a
practical, solid fact.
The Savannah News correspondent’s
statement points directly to one of the
foundation stones of this new State
structure. Will our self-delegated and
luminous New England mentors and
critics please take notice of this fact?
Probably Mr. Atkinson supposed that
he would astonish his Atlanta audience
when he informed them that his son,
not from necesdty, but voluntarily,
studied in a blacksmith and a carpen
ter shop, before undertaking Greek and
metaphysics at Harvard. He was mis
taken, we trust agreeably so. He found
neither an astonished nor an incredu
lous, but an appreciative and sympa
thetic crowd. The necessity for work,
in order that bread and meat may
follow, the dignity of labor, the man
hood of honest toil, are as readily hon
ored and clearly understood in this
section as in Mr. Atkinson’s, and as
successfully practiced as the limitations
enforced by existing circumstances will
allow. The results speak for them
selves. They spoke thousand-tongued
to Mr. Atkinson around the spot
whereon he stood; they appealed to
his eyes for generous recognition in the
humble garb of utility, and in the royal
robes of luxury and beauty.
To thoughtful men, intently watch
ing the progress of the New South, the
facts alluded to by “ Chatham ” are of
far deeper significance than the not at
all unusual fact of rich men’s sons
learning a trade before going to college.
The sons of a more important person
than Mr. Atkinson even, the German
Emperor, are all practical mechanics
and artisans; so are other royal and
coroneted scions of Europe.
Our best blood is not ashamed to
work side by side with “the horny
handed sons of Toil.” They labor with
patient will and noble purpose; nor do
they labor with supercilious airs, or a
false spirit of condescension toward
those who, by force of straitened cir
cumstances or private misfortune, were
prevented from enjoying the liberal
training of a college or University cur
riculum. Caste distinctions, and the
badges of hereditary wealth and social
cliquism, have been obliterated; they
have ceased to be a potent power, a
blighting curse with us. Can Mr. At
kinson truthfully, unqualifiedly, say as
much for his section? For Massachu
setts? For Boston?
We hold that the New South, in some
vital respects, is ahead of New England
civilization. In the subject thus briefly
considered here, we are sure that our
people will not find it inexorably neces
sary to go to school under the tutorship
of Mr. Atkinson, to take lessons in the
fine art of honest toil and the divine
philosophy of labor.
THE NEW CODE OF GEORGIA..
The New Code of Georgia, ordered
by act of the late General Assembly,
will be published by James P. Harrison
&C0.,0f the Franklin Printing House,
Atlanta. The number of copies to be
issued for sale- will be limited. The
book is indispensable to every law
library in the State. It will be well,
therefore, for all who desire to secure a
copy of the new Code, to order the
same at once from the publishers, who
will fill the order immediately upon
publication.
The volume is to be issued in splen
did style, perfect in every respect, and
equal to the finest Code of any State
of the Union.
Write to the publishers immediately.
Buffalo Liihia Springs.—We take
great pleasure in calling the attention
of our readers to the advertisement of
the justly celebrated Buffalo Lithia
Water, which stands at the very head
of the most famous medicinial waters
of the United States. To all afflicted
we commend especially the certificate
of Dr. J. Marion Sims, of New York, a
physician of world-wide renown.
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—The Cartersville Free Press says Mr. A.
H. Stephens lost “over $20,000 by the bad
management of others in the publication of
the Atlanta Sun, and that it is hardly proba
ble he will engage in journalism again.”
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Secular Editorials—Literature r- r
Domestic and Foreign Intelligence.
LITERARY NOTES AND COM
MENTS.
From accent posting of the ledgers
of Charles Scribner’s Sons, it has been
ascertained that “Kathrina” led Dr.
Holland’s book in popular favor, the
sale of that volume having amounted
to one hundred thousand copies. “Bit
ter Sweet” follows with ninety thous
and copies. Os the “Titcomb Letters,”
which were refused by three publishers,
sixty-one thousand copies have been
sold up to date.
—December Ist, W. G. Corthell, of
Boston, will issue a new book entitled
“From Darkness to Light,” written by
Rev. J. E. Clough, Missionary of the
American Baptist Missionary Union to
the Telugus at Ongole. The story gives
a faithful picture of the home-life of
the natives, and is designed to meet
the many demands for a more extended
knowledge of this remarkable people.
—-‘Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, D. D.,
has become editor of the Sunday Maga
zine.
—A prize of 500 marks ($125) is
offered in Berlin for the essay
“On The Moral Law as a Guide for
Conduct in the Leading Relations of
Human Life.”
—Messrs. John T. Morse and Henry
Cabot Ledge have resigned their joint
editorship of the International Review.
—The cobwebs on Martin Farquhar
Tupper’s “Proverbial Philosophy” have
been brushed away by an enterprising
publisher in New York, and a
red line edition of the same
will soon appear. Why not? Even
last year’s almanac can be made to do
service, when nothing better is handy,
to dull the edge of care and promote
somnolency.
—“The eternal fitness of things” is
again illustrated by the announcement
that Mr. D. Lothrop, the publisher, •is
soon to be married to a lady of New
Haven whose books he has been pub
lishing.
—The third and concluding volume
of Kossuth’s Memoirs may be expected
soon.
—Charles W. Hubner’s volume of
“Poems and Essays” is out, in elegant
style. The book can be procured of
the canvassing agents, or directly from
the publishers, Brown & Derby, 21 Park
Place, New York. The price is one
dollar.
—Mrs. Bayard Taylor is about to
erect a monument to her husband at
Longwood, Pa., in the shape of a Greek
altar, bearing on the top a lamp with a
flame, and on the front a bronze por
trait in bas ielief.
—Miss Isabella Bird, the author of
the charming books of travel, has be
come Mrs. Bishop. The King of Siam
has just bestowed upon her the order
of ‘'Kapolani,” in recognition of her
literary work.
Rose Terry Cook is the busiest of
busy women, and her occupations are
varied. She can write a charming
poem or a fine story, can cook a deli
cious dinner, work several hours every
morning in her garden before breakfast,
and is, besides, a thorough woman in
her appreciation of the “pretty things.”
Her collection of bric-a-brac would de
light the heart of a connoisseur.
Judge Tourgee, author of “The
Fool’s Errand,” etc., has written an
other novel, to be ready this month,
entitled “John Eax.” Reaiers will be
glad to learn that it contains neither
“war” nor “negro” drivel. The thought
is restful.
—Mr. J. R. Randall, in his editorial
correspondence from Washington to
the Augusta Chronicle and Constitu
tionalist, says: “I am glad to see that
an energetic and most promising effort
is being made, by the people of Balti
more, to raise a fund for the family of
the late Sidney Lanier. Mr. Lanier
was a Georgian, and this tribute to
him is the more remarkable. He fares
better than Poe or any other literary
man of Maryland. If he had been
born in Baltimore, he would have had
small reason to be grateful for it, alive
or dead. Poe’s mother-in-law was left
in penury, and it took about thirty
years to kick the Baltimoreans into a
condition of sympathy that accorded a
memorial stone to a great genius who,
more sinned against than sinning, often
wanted bread. Mr. Lanier was at least
fortunate in being a Georgian and not
Baltimore-born. It is the old story, I
suppose, that a prophet is not without
honor save in his own country. Even
Mrs. Garfield got her $356,000 from
the East, and not a dollar, I hear, from
the rich men of Ohio. So let us hope
that the family of Mr. Lanier will be
well provided for by this Baltimore
movement. The dead writer had some
rare gifts of mind and spirit, and it is
creditable to the world that remembers
men of blood, when it does not forget
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 188 I.
men of brains, whose conquests are in
peace.”
—“Clemens, the humorist” (‘ Mark
Twain,’) says the Rochester Democrat,
“ has done better than any man of his
turn of labor. He has been fifteen
years before the public, and during that
time has become rich enough to live off
his income. His property in Hartford
is worth more than SBO,OOO, Mrs.
Stowe has made more by her pen than
any other American woman, and has
probably cleared SIOO,OOO. This may
seem like a large sum, but when it is
spread through a quarter of a century,
it is not such an immense sum as it
first appears to be. Marian Harland
(Mrs. Terhune), who has written in
dustriously for twenty years, has proba
bly made $30,000 by a dozen novels
Her Cook-Book has also been very
profitable. Mary J. Holmes has been
also highly successful. Gail Hamilton
(Miss Dodge) enjoyed a good sale of
her books during her early days of au
thorship, but her vanity got the letter
of her judgment, and she quaireled
with her publishers. Her next book
was devoted to the quarrel, and at once
impaired her popularity. She now has
a corner in the papers, but will never
do much in books again. Walworth,
who was shot by his son, never made
much out of his books, and they were,
in fact, too inferior to sell without ex
traordinary puffing. Josh Billings
(Shaw) has found unusual popularity.
He is witty, and says many wise, as
well as witty, things. It seems a pity
that such a clever fellow should be
obliged to borrow the jokes of poor
Artemus Ward and print them asorigi
nal, but such is one of the weaknesses
of funny fellows. Carleton has paid
Shaw $30,000 for his almanac, which
has been issued for ten years or more.”
A mournful and pathetic interest
surrounds the memory of the poet Cow
per; this interest is painful to the verge
of tears when we read the circtfm
stances under which his sublime hymn
was written,“God moves in a mysterious
way,” and consider the woful cause
and birth of this immortal Christian
song. The incidents of the story, in
their authentic form, are worth repeat
ing. Cowper, it will be remembered,
was of a melancholy turn of mind, and
his mind became morbid on the sub
ject of religion. In fact, at times, he
had fits of insanity. In London,while
ruminating on the uselessness of hu
man life, he was seized with the sud
den impulse to destroy himself—to go
at once and drown himself. He order
ed a hackney coach to be brought to the
door. When it arrived he rushed
down stairs and into it, without giving
orders where it was to be driven.
Waiting some little time, the driver
asked where he would like to be taken
to. “To the Thames.” The manner
and look in which these words were
uttered convinced the driver, who ap
pears to have had more than the usual
intelligence of men of his class, that
his occupant was deranged. He drove
off, but not to the river where Cowper
had ordered him. He drove up one
street and down another for a long
time,while Cowper sat back in his seat
in mental abstraction,which convinced
the driver that he was crazy. After a
long, roundabout drive he drove up to
the poet’s lodgings, and told him he
had arrived “where he was ordered.”
Cowper descended from the vehicle,
entered the house and went to his
room. Then, in his returning con
sciousness, the truth of the entire
transaction entered his mind, and he
found that he had not seen the river
at all, nor had he drowned himself, as
he intended when he left the chamber,
two hours before. In this he saw the
hand of Providence, and immediately
composed the hymn:
God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform,
Which will be sung as long as hymns
are sung in religious worship.
—A novel of Cape Cod life was read
in manuscript by Williams & Co., Bos
ton publishers, and approved. They
accordingly published it, and the first
edition of 1,000 copies was so quickly
sold that a second was hurried out.
Then came seven libel suits for an ag
gregate of $30,000. The novelist had
not only introduced real persons in a
most uncomplimentary fashion, but
had given their full names.
—Anson D. F. Randolph & Co., in
connection with John Walker & Co., of
London, will issue immediately a
genuine Bunyan Memorial, in a new
edition of the Pilgrim’s Progress, with
a biographical sketch and numerous
illustrations. The covers are made of
oak wood, taken from the Elston
Church previous to the restoration of
the old church in 1880. Inserted in
the cover is a copy of White’s pencil
portrait now in the British Museum.
A’EJF BOOKS.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : Philosopher and
Poet, by Alfred Guernsey. D. Appleton
Co., New York, publishers.
This is another of the popular
“Handy Volume Series” of this enter
prising publishing house. The yolume
contains, in succinct form, a liberal
amount of the best which the mind of
the philosopher and poet has given to
the world in a long and richly gifted
life. The book will give the reader a
pretty full idea of Emerson’s complete
.works. The compiler has done his
work honestly, gracefully, and with a
most commendable spirit of candor.
In many instances he has the inde
pendence to assert manfully his own
opinion of letters, philosophy or style,
and protests vigorously against the
philosopher’s text. We are glad to
see such literature made popular in
price and in treatment.
The Sun. By 0. A. Young; Professor of
Astronomy in the College of New Jersey.
With numerous illustrations. D. Appleton
& Co., New York, publishers.
This is one of the “International
Scientific Series,” now being published
by the Appletons. The student and
the general reader will find in this
book all that is known to modern
science concerning the sun. The
many carefully prepared illustrations
are excellent aids to the comprehen
sion of the text, which is kept clear of
bewildering technicalities, without sac
rificing the dignity of the theme by
catering to the prevailing light liter
literature style. The author has
availed himself of the best sources of
knowledge, and has gleaned for this
special purpose the richest fields of
scientific investigation. The volume
is well worthy of the place it occupies
in the valuable series of which it forms
a part.
The Outbreak of the Rebellion. By John
G. Nicolay, Private Secretary to President
Lincoln. New York. Charles Scribner's
Sons, 743 Broadway.
From Fort Henry to Corinth. By M. F.
Force, late Brigadier General and Brevet
Major General, U. S V., commanding First
Division, Seventeenth Army Corps. New
York. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 743 and 745
Broadway. For sale by Walden &
Stowe, Atlanta.
These two volumes begin the series
of twelve volumes to be published by
Charles Scribner’s Sons under the
general title of “Campaigns of the
Civil War,” each to be devoted to a
particular campaign, or particular
phase of the great struggle, and each
to be written by some one who, from
personal experience or special study,
is specially qualified to treat it
thoroughly and comprehensively. The
entire series to make a complete his
tory of the war.
The writers of this important his
torical series enjoyed peculiar advan
tages in the prosecution of their work.
They have had access to the official
reports and army returns of both sides,
and have had the advantage of all the
evidence which historical societies and
and biographies of individuals have
made.public. Mr. Nicolay’s volume
brings the record down to the battle of
Bull Run, of which an account is given,
illustrated by three maps, showing
positions at different stages of the con
test. Five other maps are given, and
an index. q
The opening chapter of the second
volume gives an intelligent account of
events along the Mississippi in 1861,
including the movements in Missouri
that culminated in the battle of Pea
Ridge and the engagement at Belmont.
The story of Donelson, Island No. 10,
Shiloh and Corinth, occupies the rest
of this volume, which, like its com
panion, is furnished with small maps
illustrating the field of operations, and
with a good index.
Two more volumes of the series are
ready, and the rest will be issued as
rapidly as possible.
The Fate of Madame LaTour; a Tale of
Great Salt Lake. By Mrs. A. G. Paddock.
Fords, Howard & Hulbert, New York, pub
Ushers.
To the discussion of the Mormon
problem, which is rapidly coming to be
recognized as the most formidable
political question with which the peo
ple of the United States have got to
grapple, now that slavery is dead and
the South reconstructed, this book,
although in the form of a novel, will
be recognized as an important and
effective contribution. Thousands will
read it who would turn aside from more
labored review articles and arguments,
and will gain from it a clearer idea of
the wretched barbarism of the Mor
mon system than they could possibly
gain in any other way. <
Mrs. Paddock, who has been for ten
years a resident of Salt Lake City, and
whose husband has been in Utah ever
since 1858, writes largely from her own
observation and his experience. She
informs us that the story is ia the main
true, and ths characters real, an asser
tion which the reading of it gives us
no room to doubt, even if it were not
vouched for by the highest authority.
We shall not attempt to epitomize its
plot, but must content ourselves sim
ply with advising our readers to read
the book, and not to overlook the
appendix, in which Mr. George Q.
Cannon’s recent review article is ad
mirably answered.
Wild Work. By Mary E. Bryan, author
of “Maneb.” D. Appleton & Co., New York,
publishers.
Anything coming from the pen of
Mrs. Mary E. Bryan commands at once
the attention of the reading world.
There are few writers who wield a more
facile or prolific pen, or whose style is
more graphic, picturesque and intense.
In “Wild Work,” the author found a
field admirably suited for the display
of these leading elements of her literary
style, and an abundant material for
the high coloiing which she delights in
giving to her vivid pictures of the pas
sions, and her strong delineations of
character.
There is not a dull or lame line in
any of Mrs. Bryan’s literary produc
tions, in prose or poetry. The flow of
ideas is quick, intense, sometimes
painfully turbulent, but in every in
stance quickened with the fervor of a
genuine poet’s temperament, and
brightened by the unquestionable
presence of genius and dramatic in
sight. All these qualities are, more or
less, manifested in this volume of ro
mance “founded on fact.”
We have the author’s word for it,
that the story is a true picture of
Louisiana in the ruinous and deplora
ble era whose incidents and characters
are depicted. One of its most exciting
events is the daring act of the Louis
iana girl, who rode across a wild coun
try at night to warn a carpet-bag
commander of his danger, and its
dramatic interest culminates in the
story of the Red River tragedy.
From the lurid, passion defaced
picture of those unhappy days, we turn
with dismay and loathing, and em
brace with heartiness and joy the con
clusion arrived at by the author of
“Wild Work” when she says :
“It is just six years this summer of
1880, since the tragic event on which
this story turns took place near the
little river-side town of Cohatchie. In
this brief time the spirit of change has
moved strongly over the South. The
turbulent transition period is over ; the
appeals to mob law have ceased. The
people have learned to assert their
rights more wisely; the Government
to regard them more carefully. Bitter
experience has taught these lessons.
Mutual sympathy and understanding
open a fair prospect of union in more
than name between the two sections of
the Republic.”
Tahoe, or Life in California.—
Miss Sallie B. Morgan, of Carrolltcn,
has written a book with the above title,
which is now in press, and will appear
next month. The work is partly des
criptive of California life, and contains
both fact and fiction. Knowing the
authoress as we do, we venture nothing
in saying that the work will be very
interesting, and from her pen will come
many “thoughts worth the coining.”
Miss Morgan is a Mississippian, and
the people of the State, and especially
of this community, should feel a deep
interest in the success of the work. It
will be published by James P. Harri
son & Co., Atlanta, Ga., handsomely
bound in cloth, and sold by subscrip
tion at the low price of two dollars per
copy. There are already about five
hundred subscribers for the work, some
of them the distinguished men of tbe
nation. We trust, and believe, it will
prove a great success.— Winona Miss.
Advance.
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The so-called Readj ustere( Mahonites)
achieved a conspicuous victory in the
Virginia State election. The Rich
mond Dispatch (Democratic) concedes
Cameron’s election by from 5,000 to
6,000 majority, and summarizes the
legislative result in the State as fol
lows: Senate—Democrats, 17, Read
justers, 23. House—Democrats, 42,
Readjusters, 55, doubtful, 3. This
would give the Readjusters 19 ma
jority on joint ballot without counting
the three doubtful seats. There are
two colored members in the Senate,and
eleven in the House of Delegates.
If the Pall Mall Gazette is to be be
lieved, there is no money deposited in
England belonging to the old Con
federate Government, and tho bond
I oom will end in a cave of the winds
Ihe securities still create demand in
| all markets, however, and, like the
( rainbow, are believed to conceal a bag
of g<_ d at the end.
GEORGIA NEWS.
—A railroad is to be built from Tennille to
Wrightsville.
—Most of the telegraph operators along
the Georgia railroad are ladies.
—Lexington is a good winter home. Oak
wood sells for sixty-five cents per cord.
—Superintendent Zettler, of the Mac in
public schools, has tendered his resignation
to the Board.
—Three hundred and seventy five acres of
land, two miles from Perry, and without a
building of any kind on it, sold for $2,900
last sale day.
—Hon. L P D. Warren, of Albany, has
been appointed Judge of the Albany Circuit
to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Judge W. O. Fleming.
—Eight Walton county farmers, with their
families, who moved to Louisiana two years
ago, have returned to their old home, and
are very glad to get back.
—The Dawson Journal announces that
the new cotton crop of that section, owing to
the early opening during the dry weather, is
about all in. It thinks that. farmers should
take advantage of their opportunity to sow
a large acreage in fall oats.
—There are four Pickens county women
at the Atlanta Exposition, engaged by the
Willimantic Thread Company, spinning and
weaving in the old primitive method. They
attract as much attention as any other
feature.
—The Swainsboro Herald says the apple
orchards were loaded with apples this year;
that Mr. J. K Lewis gathered eleven bushels
from one tree. The same paper says that
farmers in that section have been obliged to
haul water for their steam gins.
—Governor Colquitt has been selected by
the Executive Committee of the Atlanta
Exposition to go to Philadelphia and confer
with the presidents of the great trunk lines,
with the object of securing a general reduc
tion of passenger rates to this city.
—The upland cotton crop of Southern and
Southeast Georgia has all been gathered, and
is by all odds the best handled crop, in point
of preparation, that has been marketed from
this section since the war, which is owing
entirely to the favorable season, the greater
portion of the crop never having had a drop
of rain on it.
—The anniversary of the Macon Public
Library will occur about the middle of
December, and it is proposed to celebrate the
occasion in some public and highly enjoya
ble manner. A grand reunion is contempla
ted, to be held at Masonic Hall, at which
time a programme of entertaining exercises
will be presented.
—Griffin News: “Mr. James Beatty, one
of our best farmers, who owns and manages
a large plantation between this city and
Sunnyside, immediately on the line of the
Central railroad, has decided to divide his
lands into small parcels and settle them with
Northern and German people. Already he
has located three good families, two from the
West and one German ; and he informs us
that he has other inquiries and propositions
in regard to other tracts.”
—According to the Vidette, the cottcn
crop of Walton county is nearly all gathered
and sold, and the bulk of the money paid
out, and that paper says there is a better dis
position among people to pay their debts
this fall than it has been noticed for several
years, a fact which it thinks augurs well for
the condition of the home supply of provis
ions for both man and beast. It also says
that a large area of small grain has been
sown this fall, and the good work still goes
on. Besides this, there has been more forage
saved than has been the case in the last ten
years combined. This report is general in
all that section of country.
—Marietta Journal: “Susan H. Malcom,
of Walton county, ninety years of age. is the
mother, grandmother, great grandmother,
great great grandmother and great great great
grandmother of six hundred and sixty eight
children. Sarah A. Daniell, of Cobb county,
the widow of Atlas A. Daniell, is her next
eldest daughter, sixty-one years of age, and
is the mother and grandmother and great
grandmother of eighty two children. George
W. Malcom, the father of this generation,
was seventy-six years of age at his death.
He was a minister of the old school Baptists,
and was highly esteemed by all who knew
him.”
—The Atlanta correspondent ofthe Spring
field Republican writes: ‘ There are thous
ands of acres of land in Georgia which can
be bought to-day and improved and sold two
years hence for twice or thrice the cost, or
be made to yield from 25 to 100 per cent, on
the investment. There is money in agricul
ture, in timber, in mining, in cotton manu
facture. in the manufacture of fertilizers, in
fact every kind of manufacture. One of the
most accurately informed men in the State
recently told me that he knew of no venture
in Georgia that had failed the last few years
to yield a handsome dividend. Hereafter
more particular mention will be made of the
undeveloped resources of the South, as shown
by the exhibits made here.”
—The Dawson Journal is of the opinion
that what we need most in Georgia is a
thorough and complete reformation in our
farming system. It says: “The farmers of
the South have made no perceptible advance
in farming since the war, for the manifest
reaeon that they have been in a rush to do
too much. Our farmers have attempted,
year after year, to cultivate too much land.
What we need is small farming, small farms
thoroughly prepared, highly fertilized and
well cultivated. Along with this we need
diversified crops. Making all cotton and
buying our food crops in the West will
bankrupt any set of farmers in the world.
We need to adopt in this country the North
ern idea of farming: small farms well pre
pared, highly fertilized and thoroughly cul
tivated.”
—Tbe following statement is furnished
the press by Messrs. Atkinson and Garsee, in
behalf of the National Cotton Manufacturers’
Association : The first committee of New
England cotton manufacturers and their
friends, have separated, most of them going
home. They concur in the opinion that a
meeting of the National Cotton Planters'
Association should be held in Atlants, De
cember 6th, three hundred to six hundred in
numbers, and should be met by an equal
number of manufacturers from the North.
They affirm that if this be brought about, it
alone will fully justify the Cotton Exposi
tion. They have found that tools and ma
chines for planting and preparing cotton for
the spinner are of the utmost interest and
importance to both grower and spinner.
They have found an exhibition of cotton
machinery such as never before has been
brought together in this country or else
where ; they have found in annex buildings
evidence of natural resources of tbe S juthern
section in agriculture, in commerce, in min
erals and in timber, which could not be
equalled from any other equal area of the
earth’s surface and in the use to which these
resources will shortly be applied; they find
promise of a vastly greater number of cus
tomers for their own mills than they expec
ted to find competitors or Southern mills;
they have met the Southern manufacturers
with a hearty good will and earnest wish for
their success; they find reason to send back
from tbe Nor h as soon as they return, their
master meoba ics and overseers to study the
subject presented, here; they concur unani
mously in the judgment that there is greater
promise of improvement in many directions,
but especially in the handling of cotton,
which would emanate from this Exposition
than from any one ever held before; they
earnestly hope that the crowds from the
North will meet with the crowds from the
South, and that the beneficent influence of
this meeting may extend beyond material
interest and work a common good for our
common country.